Further education
Further Education Colleges – key facts leaflet
Association of Colleges and British Colleges Sport have produced
a leaflet for NGBs, CSPs and other community sport partners which
outlines key facts about the college sector. This has been produced
to help community sport develop their understanding of colleges
which should be useful when trying to establish and develop
relationships with the sector in the future.
Please click
here to view the document.
London 2012 - Young Games Maker programme
London 2012 has made a commitment to using the
power of the Games to inspire
young people and through the Young Games Maker programme more than
2000 16-18 year
olds will get the chance to volunteer at the Greatest Show on
Earth, the London 2012 Olympic
and Paralympic Games.
To ensure that Young Games Makers have a
fantastic experience, LOCOG are looking for
teams of young people, headed by a team leader who already works
with them – like a
teacher, tutor or youth leader.
Find out more information here
On the Right Track – new resources for student sports
volunteering
in further
education
Some new resources have been
developed by runningsports in partnership with
Sport England’s Higher and Further Education Team and British
Colleges Sport. 'On the
Right Track - A guide to supporting student sports volunteering in
further education' offers
some basic advice to assist college staff to set up and run a
sports volunteering programme,
or if your college already has a volunteering programme, then this
resource may help you
review what you currently offer. It may also provide you with
ideas about how you could
improve opportunities that currently exist.
'On the Right Track - A guide to supporting student sports
volunteering in further education'.
'On the Right Track - Student Sports
Volunteering' is aimed specifically at students and
is
intended to be used to help guide and encourage them to start
volunteering in sport, and/or
to help them progress on their volunteering pathway. It
includes some useful tools such as
a Volunteer Checklist and a pull-out poster which could be used to
help students to think
about different ways of getting involved and making the most of
their sports volunteering
experience.
'On the Right Track - Student Sports Volunteering' and
The Student Sport Poster.
Update on Places, People, Play - the London 2012
Mass
Participation Legacy
'Places, People, Play' is a £135 million initiative which has
been made possible by the
Government's National Lottery reforms and will bring additional
funding into grassroots sport.
It will be delivered by Sport England, in partnership with the
Bristish Olympic Association,
the British Paralympic Association and the London Organising
Committee of the Olympic and
Paralympic Games. It will bring the inspiration and magic of
a home Olympics and Paralympics
into the heart of local communities, encouraging more people to get
involved in sport.
Sport England HE/FE team will communicate with the FE sector as
and when more information
becomes available on each of the programmes within the legacy
plan.
Download
further information on Places People Play
Message to FE Stakeholders
A message from Mike Diaper and Martin Doel, including an update
on developments since the
publication of the ‘Future of Sport in Further Education Report’
and the next steps.
Download
Sport England's statement on further education
As part of our target to get one million people doing more
sport, Sport England believes that
300,000 of the participants could come from across the further and
higher education sectors.
Sport England and the Association of Colleges recently
commissioned Prospects4Sport to
undertake an independent study into the future of sport within the
FE sector.
Over the past few months, Prospects4Sport have met with numerous
stakeholders from across
further education and community sport to discuss current provision
and how to improve the current
support structures.
Prospects4Sport have considered all consultation information,
along with existing research to
produce a report outlining their recommendations for developing FE
sport going forward.
Report launch presentation
The key findings and recommendations from the report were
presented at an event on
Monday 1st March by Clare Howard and Jill Puttnam from
Prospects4Sport. A video of this
presentation and the following question and answer session can be
found below. The slides used
during this presentation can be found in the list of documents
below.
Future of FE Sport presentation
There are 2 videos available.